Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Gaming 5

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (43rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 57 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 86.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Boot Drive	104% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Gaming 5 (all builds)
Memory	23.2 GB free of 32 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171130
Uptime	3.1 Days
Run Date	May 28 '18 at 06:05
Run Duration	1646 Seconds
Run User	NZL-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$249 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)	86.3% Excellent	Memory 96 1-Core 140 2-Core 233 90% 156 Pts	4-Core 412 8-Core 776 71% 594 Pts	64-Core 784 48% 784 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 86.3% Great: 92%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Corsair Force LE 240GB-$85 14,954 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 95GB free Firmware: SAFC12.2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2184 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 343 (A2) Unknown 100 100 173 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 262158 (AE) Unknown 100 100 17 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 17 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850984990 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1149 (F2) Unknown 100 100 1820	81.3% Excellent	Read 516 Write 357 Mixed 354 91% 409 MB/s	4K Read 32.9 4K Write 76.1 4K Mixed 10 103% 39.7 MB/s	DQ Read 213 DQ Write 234 DQ Mixed 46.3 84% 164 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 81.3% Great: 97%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 47GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 10329 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1354 (B1) Unknown 88 88 241 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 51 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 74 (F1) Unknown 99 99 90497263646	104% Outstanding	Read 511 Write 408 Mixed 417 99% 445 MB/s	4K Read 45 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 26 155% 57.5 MB/s	DQ Read 322 DQ Write 265 DQ Mixed 26.8 93% 205 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$25 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 354GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 66 63 3783421 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4244 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 70929531 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 10325 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1290 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 68 49 555614240 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 4345 (C2) HDA temperature 32 10 42949672992 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 7 1 3783421 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 120383638348628 (F1) Unknown 100 253 6346635560 (F2) Unknown 100 253 10611146023	85.9% Excellent	Read 159 Write 140 Mixed 125 106% 142 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 1.53 4K Mixed 0.29 78% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 85.9% Great: 112%
Seagate Laptop SSHD 2.5" 1TB-$41 64,201 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 316GB free Firmware: SM36 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 207196416 (03) Spinup time 98 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1414 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 84142089 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 10543 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1531 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 49 555745312 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 6 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 56 56 89023 (C2) HDA temperature 32 51 55834574880 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	38.6% Below average	Read 71.2 Write 62.2 Mixed 70.7 51% 68 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 4.85 4K Mixed 0.5 162% 1.92 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 38.6% Great: 65%
Seagate ST1500LM003-9YH148 1.5TB 798 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 290GB free Firmware: CC9F Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 127 99 1468061496 (03) Spinup time 95 88 0 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7964 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 19771782 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 12447 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1809 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 92 92 8 (BC) Unknown 100 90 25770197037 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 74 38 241006149658 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 720 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 9049 (C2) HDA temperature 26 62 25769803802 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 39 33 1468061496 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -38998303035025 (F1) Unknown 100 253 378983933 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4079286619	37.2% Below average	Read 65.7 Write 64.1 Mixed 52.6 46% 60.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.28 4K Write 0.34 4K Mixed 0.14 33% 0.25 MB/s
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 37.2% Great: 52%
KS KSHDD100 2TB 443GB free, PID 2773 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples		Read 100 Write 54.9 77% 77.5 MB/s

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GB-$113 87,239 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)	97% Outstanding	MC Read 35.1 MC Write 40.2 MC Mixed 31.1 101% 35.5 GB/s	SC Read 16.2 SC Write 33.8 SC Mixed 22.8 69% 24.3 GB/s	Latency 53.8 74% 53.8 ns
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 97% Great: 120%

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Workstation 76%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Gaming 5 - $192

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $249Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	494x
Core i5-7600KIntel $170Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	113x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	81x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	124x
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	93x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	83x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $85Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	35x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $69Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	35x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	31x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	43x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	33x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	23x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $770

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $170	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $120	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $29	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16